Poet Laureate of Louisiana, 2017-2019. Direct CW program @oursoutheastern & edit @LALiterature. Fmr CFL analyst for CTVMontreal.ca, CFL.ca, and ProPlayers.ca.
Joined February 2009
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8 Mar 2020
So, thanks to @blackboughpoems there are now two non-smiley poet pics of me on the planet, taken three decades apart. Only lesson I can pass on: 30 years of hope and joy can flat wear out a man’s looks! 😂
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A beautiful poem to end the day, do take time to read it.
Apr 5
Really can’t think of a better day for this one to come out! Thanks to @EunoiaReview for giving this one a home! 👇🏻 eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2…
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“Ice Metamorphosis” by Karina Longo @TheDarkestStar_ is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com
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Jun 6
Stoked to have a new micro from my PI series up at @theitchlit today! Huge thanks to the journal for giving this one a perfect home. 🙏🏻👇🏻 theitchlit.com/fiction/blog-…
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Apr 6
For my evening friends! 👇🏻
Apr 5
Really can’t think of a better day for this one to come out! Thanks to @EunoiaReview for giving this one a home! 👇🏻 eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2…
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Apr 1
Stoked to have this one up at the fabulous @dishsoapquart ! 🙌🏻👇🏻
Poem up this week that's fresh like a breath of outdoor air. Take a moment and read "Slow it Down" from @jackbedell
Find it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-31-…
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Mar 29
Not sure how I missed posting about this one in the new issue of Lamplit. Check the issue at lamplit.net
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Feb 20
It was really great getting the chance to talk about Fight Nights with Bryan Harvey. 🙌🏻🥊👇🏻 bryan-s-harvey.medium.com/ai…
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The June issue of Poems for Persons of Interest will be available as a free, downloadable PDF by the end of the week, but we’ve already posted some individual poems. Here’s one by Alina Stefanescu (@aliner)
pfpoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/k…
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Jun 10
NEW SOME WORDS
today's writer needs no introduction because they've been around the boards a time or two...& now they're around a third time with some fiction @travis_shosa
somewords.boards.net/post/18…
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Jun 10
Morning must-read from @sarpsozdinler in @BendingGenres! 🙌🏻👇🏻
Jun 10
Delighted to be back in @BendingGenres with a new micro full of baby lemurs and miniature dinosaurs and discarded VHS. Big thanks to Robert for giving my work a steady home, always.
🔗 below.
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Stoked to have a new micro in one of the best journals doing it today. @bruisermag
🔗 below!
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Jun 7
Afternoon must-read by @_MarissaGlover_ in @UCityReview! 👇🏻
Delighted to have 10 (!) poems included in this issue of UCity Review. Thank you to the editors for publishing this hard-to-write work and giving it such a good home.
If you have the time to read, I'd be grateful:
ucityreview.com/32_Glover_Ma…
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Jun 7
Watching this video is as close as I have ever been to actually seeing an idea drive talent toward creation. Just awesome. 👉🏻 Lost in creation. Pon Arsher. youtu.be/q6MjubgWb-A?si=gyqE… via @YouTube
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Jun 7
Johannah Simon (@JohannahWrites) told us this poem began as the opening line of a CNF before it “whispered in my ear and told me it was done and that it should be a shape.”
We’re glad she listened.
“A Wife’s Epiphany” is live now at The Itch.
theitchlit.com/poetry/blog-p…
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Jun 7
Reminder that somewhere on your hard drive is a piece you keep opening, tweaking, closing, and thinking about at 2 a.m.
That’s the one.
Send it to The Itch.
Theitchlit.com/submit
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Jun 6
A truth that follows you home and sits quietly at the edge of the bed.
That’s the work we’re looking for.
Submissions open. Theitchlit.com/submit
Give us something we’ll still be thinking about next Tuesday.
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Jun 6
Very grateful to have this one up at @theitchlit today! 🙌🏻👇🏻
Jun 6
An email in the inbox said: here’s a private investigator, Clarice Starling, a moving truck, cursive handwriting, and existential longing.
We said: yes.
“Lessons” by @jackbedell is now live at The Itch. 🖤
Writing that won’t leave you alone.
theitchlit.com/fiction/blog-…
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Jun 4
Wonderful interaction with @Plague_Circus just now. Very kind and generous. A journal full of fantastic writing. Give them a look if you haven’t already.
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